Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons may be that some militant clerical leaders also had incriminating files in the embassy. Among them were Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, head of the Iranian Supreme Court, and Seyyed Ali Khamene'i, a leader of the Islamic Republican Party, who both had numerous contacts with the embassy before and after the fall of the late Shah...
Responding for the mullahs' camp, Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i rose in the parliament to defend the government's handling of the negotiations. Iran's problems, he asserted, resulted from its revolutionary upheavals and not from the hostage crisis. No other regime, he said, "could have obtained from the United States more than this government has." Chief Hostage Negotiator Behzad Nabavi later conceded that Tehran got much less than the $24 billion it had originally demanded, but added somewhat lamely: "We should avoid looking at the issue through a trader's eyes. Our political...
...often during the 14 months of the hostage crisis, an unexpected glitch soon developed. Until Monday afternoon, the Iranian Central Bank had not taken part in the talks. When Ali Reza Nobari, the director of the bank, finally saw the agreement, he rejected an eleven-page appendix relating, among other things, to Iran's right to claim deposits or interest that might surface in the future...
...clerics, who until recently wanted the Americans to be kept captive, managed to subdue the more Western-oriented moderates led by President Abolhassan Banisadr, who would have preferred to release the hostages. The mullahs gained control of the Cabinet, parliament and judiciary and forced Banisadr to accept Fundamentalist Mohammed Ali Raja'i as Prime Minister. Then Banisadr, as commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, gained great popularity with the people by leading the war against Iraq. He cannily avoided any involvement in the fundamentalists' negotiations with the U.S., thus dissociating himself from the inevitable fallout when...
...perched on the ninth-floor ledge of a Los Angeles building was not preparing to float like a butterfly. Police, a clergyman and a psychologist tried for two hours to talk him out of jumping, but to no avail. In short, this looked like a job for Muhammad Ali. At least that is what one of Ali's p.r. men thought when he happened on the scene. Moments after being summoned, the former heavyweight champ arrived in his personal emergency vehicle-a two-tone brown Rolls-Royce-lights flashing. He ascended to a window near the desperate 21-year...